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Violent behavior, everyday realities. Family, society and living together in Río de la
Plata (century XVIII)

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Violent behavior, everyday realities. Family, society and living together in Río de la
Plata (century XVIII)This research is in the Buenos Aires of the eighteenth century to analyze violent and cruel episodes occurred in that time. In most women these events appears as the main victim, but the male figure also emerges as contained in interesting records injured at the hands of women. Buenos Aires society of the eighteenth century lived, like many other European and
American level, the social scourge of gender violence. But it is not only in the family, as
numerous episodes described aggressive treatment exercised by abuses of power by who
believed with the right to impose their wishes. This contribution reflects the social reality of
excesses committed during colonial times, mostly against women, and that is not an
exclusively modern phenomenon.